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Acrotome inflata [family LAMIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Acrotome inflata [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
Leucas eenii Hiern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 1,4: 878 (1900). Lasiocorys eenii (Hiern) Bak. in F.T.A. 5: 469 (1900). Syntypes: Angola, Mossamedes, Welwitsch 5486 (BM); S.W.A./Namibia, Een s.n. (BM). Acrotome amboensis Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2,3: 1095 (1903). Syntypes: S.W.A./Namibia, several cited.
Information
Annual erect herb 0,15-0,7 (-1) m tall, usually freely branched shortly above the base; stems densely appressed retrorse villous. Leaves subsessile to shortly petiolate; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, (20-) 30-100 (-120) x (5-) 10-25 mm, shortly and densely pilose, apex acute, base cuneate, margin remotely and sparingly crenate-serrate, mainly above the middle. Inflorescence of 1 or 2 (rarely 3) spaced verticils; verticils densely many-flowered, globose, 15-35 mm in diam.; bracteoles numerous, filiform, arcuate-erect, villous, spine-tipped, up to 10 mm long; flowers sessile. Calyx widest about the middle, 7 mm long at flowering, enlarging to 12—15 mm, hispid, symmetrical at the mouth, subequally 5-toothed; teeth deltoid-subulate, spine-tipped, eventually 3 mm long. Corolla small, white or pale mauve; upper lip oblong, 3—4 mm long; lower lip 4-5 mm long. Nutlets 2,5-3 mm long. Fig. 5:1.
Habitat
Closely related to the next species, A. angustifolia, and the differences are discussed under that species.
Use
1. Acrotome inflata Benth. in DC, Prodr. 12: 436 (1848); Oliv. in Hooker's Icon. PI. 15: t.1467 (1884); N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1909: 132 (1909); Skan in F.C. 5,1: 335 (1910); G. Tayl. in J. Bot., Lond. 73: 8 (1935); Wilman, Check List Griq. West 229 (1946); Launert & Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 123: 7 (1969); Jacot GuilL, Fl. Lesotho 236 (1971). Type: Cape "Zuurebergen", Burke s.n. (K, holo.).
Range
Widespread in the semi-arid parts of S.W. A./NaÂmibia, Botswana, northern and western Transvaal, northern Cape Province and Orange Free State, entering Lesotho and reaching as far south as Middelburg and Queenstown in the eastern Cape; locally common in open woodland, especially under trees and disturbed places in grassland, and found as a weed of roadsides and cultivation. Also recorded in Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Map 7.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Acrotome inflata [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
Leucas eenii Hiern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 1,4: 878 (1900). Lasiocorys eenii (Hiern) Bak. in F.T.A. 5: 469 (1900). Syntypes: Angola, Mossamedes, Welwitsch 5486 (BM); S.W.A./Namibia, Een s.n. (BM). Acrotome amboensis Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2,3: 1095 (1903). Syntypes: S.W.A./Namibia, several cited.
Information
Annual erect herb 0,15-0,7 (-1) m tall, usually freely branched shortly above the base; stems densely appressed retrorse villous. Leaves subsessile to shortly petiolate; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, (20-) 30-100 (-120) x (5-) 10-25 mm, shortly and densely pilose, apex acute, base cuneate, margin remotely and sparingly crenate-serrate, mainly above the middle. Inflorescence of 1 or 2 (rarely 3) spaced verticils; verticils densely many-flowered, globose, 15-35 mm in diam.; bracteoles numerous, filiform, arcuate-erect, villous, spine-tipped, up to 10 mm long; flowers sessile. Calyx widest about the middle, 7 mm long at flowering, enlarging to 12—15 mm, hispid, symmetrical at the mouth, subequally 5-toothed; teeth deltoid-subulate, spine-tipped, eventually 3 mm long. Corolla small, white or pale mauve; upper lip oblong, 3—4 mm long; lower lip 4-5 mm long. Nutlets 2,5-3 mm long. Fig. 5:1.
Habitat
Closely related to the next species, A. angustifolia, and the differences are discussed under that species.
Use
1. Acrotome inflata Benth. in DC, Prodr. 12: 436 (1848); Oliv. in Hooker's Icon. PI. 15: t.1467 (1884); N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1909: 132 (1909); Skan in F.C. 5,1: 335 (1910); G. Tayl. in J. Bot., Lond. 73: 8 (1935); Wilman, Check List Griq. West 229 (1946); Launert & Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 123: 7 (1969); Jacot GuilL, Fl. Lesotho 236 (1971). Type: Cape "Zuurebergen", Burke s.n. (K, holo.).
Range
Widespread in the semi-arid parts of S.W. A./NaÂmibia, Botswana, northern and western Transvaal, northern Cape Province and Orange Free State, entering Lesotho and reaching as far south as Middelburg and Queenstown in the eastern Cape; locally common in open woodland, especially under trees and disturbed places in grassland, and found as a weed of roadsides and cultivation. Also recorded in Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Map 7.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Acrotome inflata [family LAMIACEAE]
Common names
Leucas eenii Hiern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 1,4: 878 (1900). Lasiocorys eenii (Hiern) Bak. in F.T.A. 5: 469 (1900). Syntypes: Angola, Mossamedes, Welwitsch 5486 (BM); S.W.A./Namibia, Een s.n. (BM). Acrotome amboensis Briq. in Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2,3: 1095 (1903). Syntypes: S.W.A./Namibia, several cited.
Information
Annual erect herb 0,15-0,7 (-1) m tall, usually freely branched shortly above the base; stems densely appressed retrorse villous. Leaves subsessile to shortly petiolate; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, (20-) 30-100 (-120) x (5-) 10-25 mm, shortly and densely pilose, apex acute, base cuneate, margin remotely and sparingly crenate-serrate, mainly above the middle. Inflorescence of 1 or 2 (rarely 3) spaced verticils; verticils densely many-flowered, globose, 15-35 mm in diam.; bracteoles numerous, filiform, arcuate-erect, villous, spine-tipped, up to 10 mm long; flowers sessile. Calyx widest about the middle, 7 mm long at flowering, enlarging to 12—15 mm, hispid, symmetrical at the mouth, subequally 5-toothed; teeth deltoid-subulate, spine-tipped, eventually 3 mm long. Corolla small, white or pale mauve; upper lip oblong, 3—4 mm long; lower lip 4-5 mm long. Nutlets 2,5-3 mm long. Fig. 5:1.
Habitat
Closely related to the next species, A. angustifolia, and the differences are discussed under that species.
Use
1. Acrotome inflata Benth. in DC, Prodr. 12: 436 (1848); Oliv. in Hooker's Icon. PI. 15: t.1467 (1884); N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1909: 132 (1909); Skan in F.C. 5,1: 335 (1910); G. Tayl. in J. Bot., Lond. 73: 8 (1935); Wilman, Check List Griq. West 229 (1946); Launert & Schreiber in F.S.W.A. 123: 7 (1969); Jacot GuilL, Fl. Lesotho 236 (1971). Type: Cape "Zuurebergen", Burke s.n. (K, holo.).
Range
Widespread in the semi-arid parts of S.W. A./NaÂmibia, Botswana, northern and western Transvaal, northern Cape Province and Orange Free State, entering Lesotho and reaching as far south as Middelburg and Queenstown in the eastern Cape; locally common in open woodland, especially under trees and disturbed places in grassland, and found as a weed of roadsides and cultivation. Also recorded in Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Map 7.
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